Friday, November 10, 2006

I Am Thankful

You know I used to think my life back in Sydney was routine. I would wish and pray (to my agnostic God) and hope that it would become more exciting. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. I felt like my life was just going by without real meaning... "Maybe a change in environment would help?" I had thought.

KABOOM! And there fell another reason to go on exchange. Slowly as Year 12 crept by, I was increasingly looking forward from disappearing from my "real" life for 10 months. I wanted to change, I wanted to belong somewhere else, to experience the life of someone else... and that's when I became a Japanese school girl.

I smile now when I think of my naivety a mere 8 months ago. If my life was considered routine in Sydney then right now my life is a production line. I get up at the same time, I have breakfast, I go to school, I come back home, I watch TV and I sleep [Press REPEAT for 290 days]. Day in day out. ALWAYS the same. This is what I would call routine now, my life in Sydney would be called a party. The downside is you don't get to learn as much from parties. That's why I'll never regret this experience no matter how routine it becomes, because I've learnt about a billion different things, made amazing friends, and I've grown up a little along the way.

Sometimes I feel like I'm living soullessly, without much emotion or conscious thought, I guess my heart has always just remained at home.

I know from now on when I return to Sydney I will not take my life for granted. I've realized how lucky I am to be placed into such a fantastic life. Whenever I become bored I'll think back on my exchange and remind myself that I could have had the life of my host sister (which is essentially like mine right now, only she has to study properly for school =P) and I'm sure things won't seem so bad anymore.

Please Note: If circumstances changed to a) Going to a ghetto school on exchange, b) Living in Tokyo and c) Living by myself or with host parents who are rock stars or mangaka's, then life certainly wouldn't be as routine as it is now. I would with rocking it out with the parents.

On a lighter note, I was reading through an old issue of Glitter magazine when I saw an page dedicated to one of the model's they used in that issue, called Jennifer Pugh (known as J.P). She is American and is with IMG Models in the four fashion capitals but she's with Bravo Models in Tokyo.



Anyway I was reading a little note she wrote about being a model, and then something caught my attention that made me clap my hands together and squeal out in joy. Click to enlarge the photo below and look for my pink arrow.


Now of course I'm not saying my grammar is perfect either, in fact my grammar is actually quite terrible, be it Japanese grammar or English grammar... hell even my Chinese grammar is bad and there isn't even much to Chinese grammar (bad grammar in that sentence intended -_-;;).

Miss J.P didn't just make the fatal there/they're/their mistake she also seems to be missing various words in the note. I just find it all very funny... but I like to make fun of models because I'm jealous of them.

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